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The cruise-ship operator P&O has apologised, under pressure, for running a series of advertisements in Australia featuring bikini-clad women and the slogan “seamen wanted” (how they laughed in the playground). But only just, saying that the ads ran in 2003 “and are not the way we represent our company today”. How things have changed in three years.

Slovenia and Austria both claim the famous Lipizzaner horse as a national symbol (but only the Austrians house ministerial offices above their stables). The rivalry has been a source of friction over the centuries. The latest round seems to have been won by